What: System wide demonstration of the DMAC capabilities we’ve been working on for ca.10 years.

Why: Proof of concept that DMAC can be unifying element of IOOS; Essential component of system development.

Who: Project team in place, additional involvement by RAs, DMAC ST, other NOS programs

Outcome: Reports, communications material, software, repeatable procedures

MoS:

Clear notion of the things that work and don’t work in DMAC. Tests like this inform our future development.

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System Integration Test

DMAC Steering Team Nov 2013

IOOS, and others, have been at this for some time.

• 2002: Sys Dev Plan emphasizes data management as the unifying element of disparate systems

• 2005: First DMAC Plan Published• 2007: IOOS PO begins funding Data

Integration Framework pilot• 2010: DMAC Implementation plan and

funding

DMAC Steering Team Nov 2013

Project Team

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Software Development: SOS servers, THREDDS, WMS consulting, workflow/scenario scripting, IOOS Catalog, Clients (Python, Java, Matlab)

Metadata consulting, IOOS Registry

System Engineering, Project Management, Documentation

DMAC Steering Team Nov 2013

High Level Schedule

• Project Planning1 Oct – 15 Jan

• Scenario Identification1 Dec – 15 Jan

• Scenario and Test Preparation16 Jan – 28 Feb

• Testing1 Mar – 31 May

• Analysis and Reporting1 Jun – 31 Jul